The hummingbird's daughter - Louis Alberto Urrea

Prizewinning Louis Alberto Urrea's much praised novel of epic mystical drama, in which a young woman is elevated to the status of sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico. Dreamy, telegraphic and quietly lyrical. Like a vast mural, the book displays a huge cast of workers, whores, cowboys, rich men, bandits and saints while simultaneously making them seem to float on the page...[the pages] slip past effortlessly, with the amber glow of slides in a magic lantern, each one a tableau of the progress of earthly grace.' - The New York Times.'